ecomes the All and Only of our being. Having won through great
tribulation this cardinal point of divine Science, St. Paul said, "But now
we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that
we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the
letter."

IS MAN A PERSON?

Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the
material senses. Mind is more than matter, even as the infinite idea of
Truth is beyond a finite belief. Man outlives finite mortal definitions of
himself, according to a law of "the survival of the fittest." Man is the
eternal idea of his divine Principle, or Father. He is neither matter nor a
mode of mortal mind, for he is spiritual and eternal, an immortal mode of
the divine Mind. Man is the image and likeness of God, coexistent and
coeternal with Him.

Man is not absorbed in Deity; for he is forever individual; but what this
everlasting individuality is, remains to be learned. Mortals have not seen
it. That which is born of the flesh is not man's eternal identity.
Spiritual and immortal man alone is God's likeness, and that which is
mortal is not man in a spiritually scientific sense. A material, sinful
mortal is but the counterfeit of immortal man.

The mind-quacks believe that mortal man is identical with immortal man,
and that the immortal is inside the mortal; that good and evil blend; that
matter and Spirit are one; and that Soul, or Spirit, is subdivided into
spirits, or souls,--_alias_ gods. This infantile talk about Mind-healing is
no more identical with Christian Science than the babe is identical with
the adult, or the human belief resembles the divine idea. Hence it is
impossible for those holding such material and mortal views to demonstrate
my metaphysics. Theirs is the sensuous thought, which brings forth its own
sensuous conception. Mine is the spiritual idea which transfigures thought.

All real being represents God, and is in Him. In this Science of being, man
can no more relapse or collapse from perfection, than his divine Principle,
or Father, can fall out of Himself into something below infinitude. Man's
real ego, or selfhood, is goodness. If man's individuality were evil, he
would be annihilated, for evil is self-destroying.

Man's individual being must reflect the supreme individual Being, to be His
image and likeness; and this individuality never originated in molecule,
corpuscle, materiality, or mortality. Go